Hellmut Neuerburg

Hellmut Neuerburg (25 August 1917-11 February 1945) was the captain of U-869, a submarine of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany. Neuerburg was killed when his submarine was sunk off Belmar, New Jersey with all hands dead.

Biography
Neuerburg was born on 25 August 1917 in Strasbourg, German Empire. Neuerburg became an Officer Candidate (Offiziersanwaerter) on 3 April 1936, and on 1 October 1938 he was made Leutnant zur See on the eve of World War II. On 1 July 1943 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Captain and he became the captain of U-869. His ship was sent to Gibraltar off the coast of North Africa, and he set out for the United States in early 1945, having not heard the Kriegsmarine command's orders not to go to America. When his ship went missing, it was assumed that it had been sunk off Africa. However, his submarine was actually sunk off the coast of Belmar, New Jersey on 11 February 1945 by one of its own missiles that turned around and struck it, killing all 55 crew members on board, including Neuerburg (the 56th member of the crew was not on board due to illness).